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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 02:11 PM
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I love women with southern accents.
I was working with a client yesterday who has a southern accent and everytime she spoke I melted.

If she can make sweet tea, I'm leaving my wife. (I'm kidding, I'm kidding...)
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Neoma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 02:12 PM
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1. I'm quite glad that i don't have a deep southern accent.
Just a slight one...:banghead:
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 02:14 PM
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4. Same here!
:hi:
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 02:13 PM
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2. I have sort of a muted Southern accent...
Edited on Thu Jun-29-06 02:13 PM by NewWaveChick1981
Born and raised in Atlanta and now live in NC. I have a Southern mother and a Yankee father. I'd say I have an educated Southern accent---it's not really pronounced, but it's there. :)

Oh, and I say "Y'all" too. :)
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 06:09 PM
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11. I have the same thing. When I was in college, some guy
told me my accent made him want to "sink into a sofa and spend the whole day there."
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 05:56 AM
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22. Very cool!
Edited on Fri Jun-30-06 05:56 AM by NewWaveChick1981
:applause: :hi: Glad to know you're "one of us"!
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 02:14 PM
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3. For me, it depends on the accent.
Not all Southern accents are the same, y'know.

A woman with a Tennessee or North Carolina accent can make my toes curl just by talking. An East Texas, Arkansas or Alabama accent just sets my teeth on edge.
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Divameow77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 02:14 PM
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5. I spent part of my life
in Georgia, while I have lost the constant accent, I can sure git it back when I wont to :-)
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 02:17 PM
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6. This woman has a slight accent...but she did say "y'all"."
I remember being in North Carolina visiting friends many moons ago. We went into a store to buy beer and when the cashier spoke to us, I turned into a puddle on the floor.
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 02:55 PM
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7. Born and raised in Lowcountry SC,
I'm like a feminine version of Shelby Foote. Even other South Carolinians mention my accent.
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cobalt1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 05:14 PM
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8. I worked for a time in Nashville...
and fell in love 2 or 3 times a day. Even the hotel clerk checking me in would have me melting. I had a couple of relationships there that were great.

Glad I'm not there as a married man!
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 05:16 PM
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9. I was in college on Spring Break in Daytona Beach and we
partied with some girls from Tennessee. Oh man...those accents!
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 05:17 PM
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10. It's weird.
Women with Southern accents can sound really, really sexy, or really, really unsexy.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 06:14 PM
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14. I know exactly what you are saying!
Probably depends on various factors - such as what area they are from, education level, if they've ever even left the South for more than 1 week. . .
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 10:50 AM
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24. I don't think it's anything to do with class.
Some of the "poorer" accents are the sexiest. And the wealthy highly educated are often the worst. Look at Nancy Grace, it's worse than fingernails on a chalkboard.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 03:35 PM
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30. Nancy Grace is not a good example of what I'm talking about.
She's "keeping it real" - exaggerating a very rural, lower class southern accent.
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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 06:12 PM
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12. for me its english accents
Guess i have Naughty nannie fantasy's
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jadedconformist Donating Member (235 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 06:32 PM
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16. Me too
I don't know what it is. Australian accents too.
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 06:13 PM
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13. I lived in the south for 20 years
If I'm around others with a southern accent, I can fall back into it easily. I've never stopped using y'all. :)
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Ishoutandscream2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 06:29 PM
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15. No such thing as a southern "accent"
It's you that has the accent!:)
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 06:32 PM
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17. Oh, and don't I as well. Amost, but not quite as good ad Mrs R's Creole
accent. A close second, indeed.

Redstone
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tarkus Donating Member (780 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 09:16 PM
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18. Is it weird that I like northern accents?
A lot of people talk about their love for southern accents, particularly those belonging to female speakers, but northern accents are not often mentioned. I am a huge fan of Brooklyn and Boston accents, and pretty much everything in between. To be sure, I am not a huge fan of every northern accent I hear, but overall I find them pleasant to listen to.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 09:17 PM
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19. me too
and northern accents

and western accents

and no accent at all
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 09:26 PM
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20. call me, babycakes...
Edited on Thu Jun-29-06 09:26 PM by Whoa_Nelly
Ah'll sweet tea talk y'all through it... ;)
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 09:26 PM
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21. Next to an Atlanta accent,
only a Scottish accent stupefies me quicker.

I'm a sucker for for accented English.

:loveya:
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Lumily Donating Member (225 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 06:12 AM
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23. I lived the first 23 years of my life in North Carolina.
I once was hired as a receptionist because of my accent (I was told this when I eventually left the job). It was a company that made cleaning products for cars (Duragloss). Anyway, my boss told me that their clients (mostly men) just loved hearing my accent when they called to place orders.

My husband was born and raised in New York. He loves my accent, and is very pleased that our daughter sounds more like me than his side of the family. Of course, she was born in Georgia and still lives here.
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 10:53 AM
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25. Me too...depending on which state.
Arkansas accents I'm not so crazy about. Most other areas I like. Carolina/Virginia accents might be the best. I always like dating Southern girls but there aren't many around here.
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patdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 01:43 PM
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26. I am from VA and till I was 16 I spoke with some disgusting accent
till I heard myself saying stuff like 'well I took a shauer and driied of with a tauel' I decided right then and there that I HATED the southern accent. Though I do not sound like a Northerner and sometimes revert to sounding more Southern than I like, I have become more EDUCATED!
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 01:48 PM
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27. Ironically
as much as I like women with Southern accents, when I lived in the South I mostly dated women without accents. Women from the North who didn't like accents always gave me lots of attention because I was one of the few men around who didn't have one, so that's who I usually ended up with.
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 02:16 PM
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28. I'm Southern and can make sweet tea, but I'm married.
However, if you visit Georgia, I'll make you some sweet tea anyway! :)
I have an NC/TN Upland South accent (i.e. Southern Mountains and Ridge and Vally area accent) as opposed to a Deep South accent. Kim Basinger is from the town where I live. She has an authentic Athens, GA accent.

I do say "y'all" and "I'm fixin' to..." When I've gone to CA or Chicago or NYC, the peopel always comment about how Southern I sound. Some deep South Southerners think I might be a Yankee 'cause I speak like a NC/TN mountain girl. I just can't win!

Mr. CB is a NOLA native with a 100% pure NOLA accent. NOLA language is a dialect unto itself! ;)
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StellaBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 02:20 PM
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29. I'm from East Texas
and have a slight accent. Which I am proud of. I like it. I think it's going to be really boring when everybody in America sounds like a newscaster, personally.

Believe it or not, I just made a pitcher of iced tea, and I am sitting down to a late lunch of hominy, sweet potatoes, honey baked beans, green beans, and macaroni and cheese. Yes, really. Tonight I am going to see "A Streetcar Named Desire" for my birthday party.

:shrug:
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ceile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 03:43 PM
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31. I'm so jealous.
hominy, yum!
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txwhitedove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 03:52 PM
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33. Happy Birthday, Ms. S!!! Hope it is a great one.
:party:
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Crazy Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 03:51 PM
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32. The girls on Jerry Springer type southern accents....
....really are funny. It's amazing how they can turn so many one syllable words into two syllables.

"Yeeuuww gawow teeuuww hay-yell beeyitch!"
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 07:08 PM
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34. I prefer my women to have teeth. n/t
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